West Valley Christian Church members were shocked to learn that their would-be guests were victims of Saturday’s plane crash
650,000
— The number of Pentagon civilians who will be forced to forfeit one day’s work, and the pay that comes along with it, over each of the coming 11 weeks. That's a 20% pay cut over the next three months. The cutbacks, forced by the fiscal vise of sequestration, apply to about 85% of the Pentagon’s non-uniformed workforce. If sequestration remains on the books, layoffs – and not merely furloughs – are all but inevitable for some of the Defense Department’s nearly 900,000 civilian workers beginning in the fall.
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Hunting Down Che Guevara
Ernesto “Che” Guevera has morphed from historical figure to historic icon since he was hunted down and killed by U.S.-trained Bolivian forces in 1967. How much of the Argentine Marxist’s story is fact, and how much is …
Bye-Bye Birdies
F-18s leave the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Atlantic July 2 as they return to Norfolk.
A Nation of Kids with Gadgets and ADHD
Is technology to blame for the rise of behavioral disorders?
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July 4th: For Some, Freedom Is Fleeting
Well, it’s been quite a couple of weeks, depending on your viewpoint, for social reform or social un-inform.
The Joint Chiefs, admitting the military has not done enough to ensure the safety of women and men against rape and …
“We always knew that our rights can only be regained by force, and that is why we have chosen the ammunition box instead of the ballot box. If you want to shake off injustice and create change, it can only be done by the sword. We choose to negotiate in the trenches, not in hotels.”
— Statement by the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, reacting to the ouster of democratically-elected Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.
Violent Video Games Don’t Make Us Less Caring
Do violent video games make people more callous and less likely to help others?
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The Air Force’s Future May Be in Drones, But Its Generals Won’t Be
Ever since Predator drones appeared on the horizon in a big way shortly after 9/11, the Air Force has dismissed any suggestion that its core constituency of fighter pilots feels threatened by the unmanned aircraft.
That may, …
We Love to Hate the ‘Bad’ Teacher
The new novel Tampa fuels our national anxiety about public education
.500
— The batting average of the ground-based national missile shield, following Friday's "strike." The test involved a fake enemy missile fired from a Pacific atoll and an interceptor designed to destroy it launched from the California coast, the Pentagon said, here. The miss marked the eighth failure in 16 attempts. The last successful test was in 2008. Ted Williams batted .406 in 1941.
After Sex Scandal, Eliot Spitzer Makes a Comeback
Disgraced by ties to a prostitution ring, the former governor announced his candidacy for New York City comptroller angling to challenge Wall Street once again
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